Is this a terrace.

daniel80

A block of 3 houses, the one in the middle is classed as terrace but are the ones either side semi detached or terrace. Just wondered if it is any different with it only being a block of 3 and not a complete row.

BitterAndTwisted

The ones on either side could be called semis or end-of-terraces. I don't think it matter what they are called really, it's more about where they are and what they look like

Errata

If it's more than two in a row of houses it's a terrace. Householders at each end of a block of three might like to think they have semis, but they're still at the end of a terrace row.

christineperseus

and terraced houses are dearer to insure as you could burn down several properties

tim123456789

christineperseus wrote: »

and terraced houses are dearer to insure as you could burn down several properties

ITYF it's because building an infill is more exensive than with open access.

Your insurance has no liabiliy for next door's property

mysk_girl

I'm end of a row of 5 and our insurances classes us as end-terrace. I don't think I'd be pretentious enough to describe us as semi detached, to me that implies 2 houses only.

ShALLaX

tim123456789 wrote: »

ITYF it's because building an infill is more exensive than with open access.

Your insurance has no liabiliy for next door's property

Surely it's also down to the possibility of your neighbour burning your house down, in which case you'll have to claim off of your own insurance due to no fault of your own.

googler

Semi-detached implies a half of a detached property, in the same way that a semicircle is half of a circle.

The building as a whole is detached from others, and each half of the building is a semi-detached house.

Three or more houses is a terrace, and the end houses are no longer semi-detached. Even if the end houses could be described as semi-detached in the sense of being partially detached, then every end-terrace house, on whatever length of terrace, would share the same definition, and that just doesn't happen....

googler

daniel80 wrote: »

Just wondered if it is any different with it only being a block of 3 and not a complete row.

At what point does it become a 'complete' row?

Five houses? Seven? Nine? Eleven?

ShALLaX

googler wrote: »

At what point does it become a 'complete' row?

Five houses? Seven? Nine? Eleven?

Twelve.

addyboy1982

I'm at the end of a terrace of four and would describe mine as end of terrace and definitely not semi-detached for the reasons outlined above.